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CVE-2021-29811: IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 stores user credentials in plain clear text which can be read by an

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.96% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 61.8% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 2 times in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 stores user credentials in plain clear text which can be read by an authenticated admin user. IBM X-Force ID: 204329.

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Info leak

Published: Sep 20, 2021
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.9% · 61th percentile
CWE: CWE-522

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.9%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 4.9
CNA · ibm: 4.9; agree

CVSS:3.0/S:U/UI:N/A:N/AC:L/AV:N/I:N/C:H/PR:H/RC:U/RL:O/E:U

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ibm	tivoli netcool\/omnibus webgui	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_netcool\/omnibus_webgui

Affected versions

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ibm tivoli netcool/omnibus webgui8.1.0 and later · before 8.1.0.24

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
- 8.1.0affected

Same product

ibm: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2021-29856IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 could allow an authenticated usre to cause a denial of service through the WebGUI Map Creation page.
26Monitor
CVE-2021-29821IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
21Monitor
CVE-2021-29820IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
21Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-29808Sep 20, 2021 · IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting.
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2021-29809Sep 20, 2021 · IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting.
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2021-29817Sep 20, 2021 · IBM Jazz for Service Management and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus_GUI 8.1.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
21Monitor

Remediation

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope